THE GYM, THE PEOPLE, THE HISTORY
To build confidence through movement.
Through expert coaching and purposeful movement, we improve our athlete’s confidence, capability, and resilience—in the gym and in life.
ROAM is athlete-owned, athlete-led.
ROAMFurther Athletics was founded by lifelong Parkour athletes wanting to create a space rooted in the early philosophies of Parkour while making room for new generations to discover, shape, and grow with the discipline.
On the surface, Parkour develops strength, balance, coordination, and spatial awareness. But beneath, the lessons are patience, resilience, responsibility, and self-belief.
For ROAM’s founders, Parkour was never just about the movement.
It changed how they understood themselves.
It became a practice of self-trust. Learning what you are capable of, then growing that capability one challenge at a time.
As pioneering athletes and instructors in the Northeast Parkour community, ROAM’s founders helped shape some of the earliest Parkour programs in the region. Today, that history continues through a team of active athlete-coaches who still train, still grow, and still model the same process they teach.
ROAM is the result of nearly two decades of training, coaching, and community-building.
Each aspect shaped the vision for ROAM into what it is today: a place where Parkour could be given to the next generation in a way as authentic as it was for its founders.
Athletes build trust in themselves by working through challenges and seeing their progress over time.
Athletes are encouraged to take on meaningful challenges with guidance, structure, and care.
Supportive coaches and teammates create an environment where athletes feel seen, encouraged, and connected.
Athletes develop balance, coordination, agility, strength, and body awareness through purposeful movement.
Athletes learn to try, adjust, and continue, turning struggle into growth.
Athletes build skills, habits, and confidence that carry beyond the gym for the rest of their lives.
Joseph Cannato is the creator and Co-Founder of ROAMFurther Athletics. A parkour athlete, coach, and program builder with nearly two decades of experience in the discipline.
Through his own long-term experience, Joe has come to see parkour as a powerful tool for personal growth.
As a father, he is especially passionate about building a space where the original philosophies of parkour can be preserved while the next generation learns, evolves, and makes the discipline their own.
Scott is Co-Founder of ROAM. With more than 30 years of experience in finance, business growth, and operational leadership, Scott brings a thoughtful and strategic perspective to ROAM’s leadership team.
Scott was drawn to parkour by the philosophy and principles behind the discipline. He helped create ROAM to build something meaningful for the community: a place where people of all ages can challenge themselves, grow through movement, build confidence, and discover what they are capable of.
Zach is ROAM’s Program Director, Website Author, and Brand Designer. He began training more than 15 years ago and has been part of the East Coast parkour community since its early years.
At 15, Zach started one of the first parkour programs in Connecticut and later served as a Head Coach under Joseph Cannato before helping found ROAMFurther Athletics. His experience as an athlete, coach, and creative has shaped the way he helps tell ROAM’s story and carries the discipline forward for the next generation.
Nick, brother of Joe, is an artist, musician, and hands-on creative with a natural eye for detail. Whether drawing, making music, building, or working behind the coffee bar, Nick brings his own artistry into everything he does.
He worked closely with Joe to develop the gym’s specialty coffee shop, helping shape it into a fundamental part of the ROAM experience.
Leader of Athletic Development & Head Coach
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Competitive Team Coach & ROAM Athlete
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Social Media Manager & ROAM Athlete
Outreach Manager & ROAM Athlete
Organizations that help make ROAM, ROAM
ROAM’s obstacle course and training equipment was designed in tandem with our founders by FlowParks, a Polish manufacturer with over 250 parkour and street workout installations across 13 countries. Our facility, shipped and installed in 2021, was FlowParks’ first project in the United States — featuring multi-level platforms, a bar suspended above the airbag, mobile obstacles, and a one-of-a-kind adjustable “balcony” wall zone found nowhere else in the world.
Krystian Kowalewski — three-time world parkour champion, sponsored by Red Bull and Flowparks — tested out ROAM’s gym during a trip with Flowparks to see the space in person and film a video showcasing the design work of Flowparks and ROAM through the movement of a pro athlete. It’s a stamp of approval from one of the sport’s most decorated athletes on the very obstacles our members train on every day.
ROAM has worked in tandem with the Sport Parkour League — home of the Parkour World Championships — to host official qualifiers inside our gym, bringing this premier world-level competition platform directly to our community.
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